Word: vitalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...previous war, men are conscious of the supreme necessity of planning what is to come after-and of carrying forward into peace the common effort which will have brought them victory in the war. They have come to see that the maintenance and safeguarding of peace is the most vital single necessity in the lives of each...
...business that changes slowly - except in wartime. This year's seed catalogs, agriculture college bulletins and reports of new research tell an exciting story of improved plants that promise higher yields of foodstuffs and fodder, of forgotten crops returning to favor, of drug plants formerly imported, now vital crops...
There are odd plants unimportant in acreage but vital in the war : quick-growing Russian dandelions for rubber, cattails and milkweed to be used as filler in life preservers, henbane used as a sedative...
...construction of 71 midwest factories. Hemp was a big U.S. staple even before the Revolution, was used for homespun garments, twine, sacking, rigging, cables, hangmen's nooses. But foreign competition half century ago killed U.S. hemp production. Now Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard has listed it as a vital war crop...
Terse, official statements like these last week highlighted a vital phase of the war in Russia. For the Russian front was now, in many respects, similar to the Pacific front: the Germans were pocketed on a series of "islands," where the beleaguered armies could survive only so long as they were supplied from centers many miles away. As rail and road routes fell to the Russians and advance depots were depleted, the Germans had to depend more & more on supply...